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In the communist manifesto Marx advocates for the:

> Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

The state controlling communications doesn't sound very free speech to me.



One could argue that maybe it’s a means to get rid of the profit incentive that is inherent with means of communications that has always existed within a capitalistic society…

Have you considered that?


Like I said, I don't know about Marx, and I don't know what he means by "the means of communication". But for one thing, it seems (from the paragraph above the line you quoted) that he views this as a necessary and temporary evil:

> despotic inroads on the rights of property... unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

And for another, he's also said to have said (in "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction"):

> The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.

That seems pretty unambiguously against censorship.




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